CLDC Profiles

CLDC itself provides only a basic set of classes for a J2ME profile. In Chapter 1, you were given an overview of the two profiles available for CLDC: the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) and the PDA Profile (PDAP). Now, we will present the additional functionality the profiles add to CLDC. We will start with MIDP and then give an overview of PDAP. Figure 2.1 shows an overview of the J2ME CLDC packages and their intersections with J2SE.

Figure 2.1. J2ME CLDC packages including the MID and PDA profiles and intersections with J2SE.

MID Profile

As described in Chapter 1, MIDP is designed for mobile information devices such as ...

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